Cost Optimisation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cost Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cost Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 700 717
Rank change year-on-year +220 +17 -42
Permanent jobs citing Cost Optimisation 108 64 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.089% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.11% 0.057%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 26
10th Percentile £44,000 £40,988 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,450 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -6.12% +18.93%
75th Percentile £72,188 £68,438 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £71,125 £90,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,041 59,787 56,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.90% 83.60% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,101 41,279 29,105
10th Percentile £26,875 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Cost Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cost Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cost Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Cost Optimisation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cost Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +106 40 £65,000 +13.04% 50
East of England +65 29 £85,000 +78.95% 3
North of England +47 13 £60,000 +43.63% 27
Midlands +55 12 £46,000 -31.85% 15
North West +6 10 £52,500 +25.68% 8
South West +117 9 £85,000 - 10
West Midlands +40 8 £46,000 -31.85% 11
Scotland +114 5 £52,500 -35.38% 6
East Midlands +22 4 - - 4
Yorkshire +61 2 £67,500 +68.75% 17
North East +36 1 - - 2
Cost Optimisation
UK

Cost Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.93%) Apache
3 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.93%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 78 (72.22%) AWS
2 65 (60.19%) Pulumi
3 20 (18.52%) Azure
4 7 (6.48%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.56%) Serverless
6 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (4.63%) GCP
7 4 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.70%) Route 53
8 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.85%) IaaS
9 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.85%) PaaS
9 2 (1.85%) SaaS
9 2 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 65 (60.19%) Broadband
2 8 (7.41%) Firewall
3 7 (6.48%) SD-WAN
3 7 (6.48%) VPN
3 7 (6.48%) WAN
4 4 (3.70%) HTTPS
4 4 (3.70%) Network Security
4 4 (3.70%) VLAN
5 3 (2.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.93%) BGP
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.93%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) DNS
6 1 (0.93%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.93%) MPLS
6 1 (0.93%) MQTT
6 1 (0.93%) OSPF
6 1 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (61.11%) Relational Database
2 65 (60.19%) NoSQL
2 65 (60.19%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) Power Query
4 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (60.19%) Jaeger
2 1 (0.93%) Git
General
1 69 (63.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Finance
5 4 (3.70%) Marketing
6 3 (2.78%) Law
6 3 (2.78%) Legal
7 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.93%) Aviation
8 1 (0.93%) Billing
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (61.11%) Lead
2 65 (60.19%) Team Leader
3 11 (10.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (6.48%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (6.48%) IT Manager
5 6 (5.56%) Architect
5 6 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) Consultant
7 3 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (2.78%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Senior
7 3 (2.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.85%) DevOps Consultant
8 2 (1.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (62.96%) OpenTelemetry
2 65 (60.19%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.85%) Kafka
4 1 (0.93%) Akka
4 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.56%) CMDB
2 3 (2.78%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (0.93%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.93%) Life Science
4 1 (0.93%) PMI
4 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.93%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 68 (62.96%) Linux
2 66 (61.11%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
3 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (73.15%) DevOps
2 76 (70.37%) Containerisation
3 75 (69.44%) Roadmaps
4 74 (68.52%) Mentoring
5 72 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (65.74%) High Availability
7 69 (63.89%) Agile
8 68 (62.96%) Performance Optimisation
9 66 (61.11%) Continuous Integration
9 66 (61.11%) Product Management
9 66 (61.11%) Resource Management
9 66 (61.11%) Task Automation
10 65 (60.19%) Budget Control
10 65 (60.19%) GitOps
11 16 (14.81%) Cost Management
12 12 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (10.19%) ITIL
13 11 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (9.26%) CI/CD
14 10 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 71 (65.74%) Python
2 68 (62.96%) Java
3 66 (61.11%) Bash
4 65 (60.19%) Go
4 65 (60.19%) JavaScript
5 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.78%) SQL
7 1 (0.93%) Bicep
7 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 73 (67.59%) AWS Certification
2 9 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 9 (8.33%) Degree
3 8 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.70%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.85%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.85%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) ACCA
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) CFA
8 1 (0.93%) CIMA
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.93%) MCITP
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) GDPR
1 5 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.78%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.85%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.93%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 68 (62.96%) Docker
2 7 (6.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (68.52%) Kubernetes
2 70 (64.81%) Terraform
3 69 (63.89%) Prometheus
4 65 (60.19%) Ansible
4 65 (60.19%) Argo
4 65 (60.19%) Kustomize
5 5 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 68 (62.96%) Google
2 13 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.78%) Databricks
4 3 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 2 (1.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Facebook
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Juniper
6 1 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Veeam
6 1 (0.93%) Workday
6 1 (0.93%) Zscaler